I was trying to edit some system files and I entered sudo code <some-file> and VS code would start, but it would not start as root. I used t see some warnings that it was not recommended (for obvious reasons) but now it just seems to not run as root.
Was there some change or some setting I need to enable?
I was able to solve this by completely deleting the preferences in ~Library/preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.helper.plist and ~Library/preferences/com.microsoft.VSCode.plist
This allowed me to run again as root once I restarted the application, I am not sure how or why I got into this state though.